Victoria C. Woodhull: “That country must be the most prosperous and happy where the people are most generally comfortably and happily…”

As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.